Need help with CEL Defended claim

The_Deep · 19 June 2018 at 2:43PM

I'm starting to feel very anxious about this as I don't think I'll be able to go to court and defend myself as this all above my abilities! But at the same time I really can't afford to pay the now, £300 + fine.

It is not a fine, it is an invoice which you dispute.

It is not a bit frightening, just a table and chairs, you all sit round it, tell your story, a judge asks some questions, and gives his decision not a bit like that old posturing queen Rinder and his histrionics at all. It is a scam, and the judge knows it.

Even if the other side wins, the judge is unlikely to ward them more than £200.

This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of contracts for alleged parking offences, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors.

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, and another company have already been named and shamed, as has Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each year). They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P. for unprofessional conduct

Hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned.

The problem has become so rampant that MPs have agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers. Watch the video of the Second Reading in the HofC recently.

http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/2f0384f2-eba5-4fff-ab07-cf24b6a22918?in=12:49:41

and complain in the most robust terms to your MP. With a fair wind they will be out of business by Christmas.